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Law Of 2 July 1864 Concerning The Election

Original Language Title:  LEGE din 2 iulie 1864 cu privire la alegeri

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LEGE of 2 July 1864 on the elections
ISSUER JUSTICE MINISTRY
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 146 146 of 15 July 1864



+ Article 1 The election of deputies to the Elective Assembly of Romania is made by two degrees. Voters are or mayors or directs. + Article 2 There are primary voters all Romanians who are caries by the Communal law are the voters of the Communal Councils, with the esception of Art. 22, lit b. of that law. Those who pay a dare to the State of lei 48 are voters in rural communes. Those who pay a dare of lei 80 or lei 110, as well as patenting up to the fifth inclusive class, as they have their residence in cities, are voters in urban communes. + Article 3 Potu be direct voters, either in cities or in villages, all Romanians born or avend the great naturalisation, cavities will have an income of one hundred yellow and of times what nature. This income will be able to prove by the imposite payment tickets, (four yellows) and by times what other indestulator chipu. Only the private salary or paid by the State for public functions will not be included in the income estimate. In addition to paying the contributions set higher, the voters of ambe degrees will have to be 25 years old. They have the right to be elected as direct voters and without justifying the income of one hundred yellow, tallow the contribution of four yellows, (if they will meet the other required conditions) parish priests, teachers of academies and colleges, doctors and licensees of various faculties, lawyers, engineers and architects, all of them avend diplomas released or recognized by Guvernu, the primary institutes of public schools, as well as the heads of the private instruction institutions recognized by Guvernu. Potu aseminea be elected direct voters and civil and military officials, withdrawn from service, caries will justify as a priimescu an annual pension of 3000 lei at least. No one can be elected directly by as much as in the city and place where they have their real domicile. + Article 4 There will be no primary voters either: I. Persons subject to a foreign protection. II. Servants cavities priimescu simbrie. III. Bans. IV. False unabilities. V. Those who will have been condemned to aflictive and infamant, or only infamant, punishments. + Article 5 The lists of primary voters prepare for either that year through the care of the communal authorities, based on the latest contribution roles. These provisory lists are displayed in the d' anteiu Dumineca of January in either joint. + Article 6 The complaints will be addressed to the Prefect in the d' anteiu three septamini from the date of the display. Dupe ce Prefect will be steed on the tutor of the plaintiffs ivite, he concludes the definitive lists and publishes them unmistakably until the one d' anteiu Dumineca a lunei Fevruarie. + Article 7 In the three weeks that follow, the discontent will be able to appeal against the otarations of the Prefect at the District Court, and in the case against the otarances of the Tribunal at the Court of Cassation, up to 30 days after the priimation of the Tribunal's otarias The Tribunal and the Court of Cassation state the emergency. Or what persona admitted in the electoral lists can advertise the registration or erasure or to which the individual omisu or injustice inscribe in the list of the college from which he himself belongs. + Article 8 In order to be elected deputy to the General Assembly, without distinction in tota Romania, we must: I. To be a Romanian born or to be endowed the great naturalisation. II. To be 30 years old. III. To be the voters and to have a cens of eligibility. An income of two hundred yellow formeda provisory this cens. This income can be of times what nature; it can be found through the tickets of paying the contributors, or and by times what other chipu. Potu fi elected deputies, and without justifying any Censu, all the Romanians who have esercited large functions in the service of the State, the superior officiating of the army that are not in the service of the active, professorship and professions corresponded to the corresponding liberal professions. + Article 9 Either that commune, counting up to 50 primary voters, numesce a direct voter; communes from 50 to 100 voters, numescu how many duos such voters and so on, one more each for either which five-so voters. mayors. The communes that have more than 50 primary voters, meet for their choice with the nearest commune, to form with it a single college. Dupe the proportion of the more susu the administration will share the more important communes in electoral circonscripts, which will elect one voter directly from either-which 50 primary voters. + Article 10 The political domicile of either-whose Romanu, is in the electoral circonscription where he has his real domicile; with tote these, he will be able to transfer it in times that another circonscription where he would pay a direct contribution, under the condition only to make his statement, with Monday before the formation of the electoral lists, both at the Prefecture of the district where the current political residence is located, and at that where voiesce a'l move. People chiemate to unremovable functions will be able to esercite their right of voters in electoral circonscriptisome where ' and fulfill the function. + Article 11 The lists of primary voters are permanent throughout the year. Direct voters choose from the nuou whenever the colleges for the general or partial elections of the deputies will convene. + Article 12 The distinction of colleges is abolished, with the only distinction of their division in city colleges and county colleges. The d' anteiu is formed by those who have rights of voters in urban communes; those of the duoilea are formed by those who have rights of voters, in rural communes (art. 2 of this legion). In cities where there will not be a hundred direct voters, direct voters will be added from the nearest rural communes and who will unstick from the college of county. All direct voters of counties that meet in one college at the Prefecture of the Prefecture. The colleagues of these voters, who would pass over three hundred voters, will subdivide themselves by the Prefect in Sections, of which either-which cannot include more pucinu of 100 voters, and is formed by the envoys of the communes of the great neighbors of each other. It will mean either the Section a special local or-to which a number of orders. The d' anteiu is always asedata in the house of the Prefecture. Either-which Sections conlucreza to the right to the appointment of deputies to caries the college of the entire following. In the counties (for example, Ismailul, Cahul, Coloniile), where the number of one hundred direct voters will not be found, the college will be able to meet through direct voters elected from among the members of the communal authorities. + Article 13 The number of Deputies to choose, is calculated dupe the population of cities and counties. The provisory joined the table shows the number of deputies who follow to choose in either city and county. + Article 14 The colleagues of the voters will convene by the failed Power with three septamani the pucinu before the otarite dilei for the election of deputies. + Article 15 The choice of direct voters is made by vote on the face; the election of deputies is made by scrutinu secretu. + Article 16 Presidents, Secretaries of voters and their own. The College cannot deal with any other than the elections for which it is convened. Or what word, or what discussion or political deliberation, are entirely stopped. The president has the voters of the Assembly No one can enter the arms. No armed power can be put at the election venue or in the tallow giour. In the casu of inorder, the President can ask the adjutor of the armed power. Civil and military antorities, the closest ones, are due to his demands in the Czech election. If in the election venue, one or more assistants would show public signs of unseemliness or stir up disturbances in times what modus, the President will call them to order; if they persist, mention will be made in the minutes, and the infatting. this proves, the culprits will be able to punish themselves with a globire from 2 to 20 yellow, or with prisons from 3 days to a month. In the casu of serious neorinduiola, the President radica the meeting on an hour; if at the reopening the neondueala, he would still prereign, he postpones the second di. + Article 17 The President makes known to the Assembly the number of elected officials. + Article 18 Either which allegatory, chiamat in turn, submits the tallow ticket written on white paper and closed in a box with two consents of which keys are kept one by the President and another by the oldest of the Secretaries. Voters who will not be able to write their own ticket, potu chiema in helporu pre ori care din voters presenti. + Article 19 Dupe what all the successive voters were chiamati, dupe the alphabeticu order, one last chiamare of those who may have been absent from the room, and the vote remane opened up to 4 hours greenhouse. To ensure votes will put the seals of several of the voters and will even be able to reeat in the hall for the ballot box. + Article 20 At the reopening of the box, either-which ticket unfolds before the public; the name esit is written by either-which Secretary on a list, and the resultant general proclaims himself by the President. + Article 21 Tickets that encompass misunderstood names, or signs of times what nature, which would entail a prior understanding, are void. + Article 22 No one is elected to the antelope of scrutinu, if they do not meet at least half and one of the esprimate and valid votes (absolute majority). For the candidates who would not be an absolute majority of votes, what will proceed to a duoilea vote many votes, even less than half and one of the amount of votes (relative majority), are elected. In the casu of parity of votes, sorta decides. + Article 23 Election operations shall be verified by the Elective Assembly, which shall be the only otaraste on their validity. As for the appeals regarding the electoral capacity, they are the exclusive competence of the respective Tribunal, and in the casing of casing of the otarira, of the jurisdiction of the Tribunal meant by the Court of Cassation. + Article 24 The deputy elected in several colleges, is obliged to declare his option to the General Assembly until 8 days after the verification of the titles. Should not be declared the option at the same time, the Assembly decides by lot, which the college replays the deputy in the cestion. + Article 25 In the casu of holidays by option, morte, resignation or otherwise, the electoral college that follows the holiday, will meet within one month. + Article 26 The mandate to be Deputy is non-communicable with the functions of Ministers, members of the Court of Cassation, the Prosecutor's Office under the Courts and Tribunals, the Directors and the Section Sefi at various Ministery and the Prefecture; the Prefect and the Sub-prefect, the boss and the Police Commissioner as well as military in the active service. The president and members of the courts cannot be elected deputies to the district of their jurisdiction. The MP who would deprive a salaried public function, or a submission, is reckoned with resigned and subject to reelection before he could still essay the mandate of the tallow. The MP who, in the course of the tallow mandate, would perde one or more of the prescribed attributes for eligibility, immediately cease to be part of the General Assembly. + Article 27 During the meeting of the Elective Assembly, she alone has the right to deprive the resignation of her members. And in the interval of the sessions and during the holidays, the resignations are notified to the Ministerium from the inside. + Article 28 Or-who interceded his registration in the lists of voters under a name, or on the basis of false attributes, or concealed, asking for his registration, any non-capacity, provided by law, or complained and related his registration on two or more lists, It will be punished with prisons from 15 days to 3 months, or with a globire from 15 to 100 yellow; if it is also taken part in the vote, the prison will be from one month to six months, or the globing from 30 to 200 coins. + Article 29 Or who, being charged with a scrutinu with the priimation, numeration or undoing of the tickets encompassed the suffrage of the voters, will prove that he falsified, evaded, added or pre-made the tickets, will be punished with prisons from six months to 2 years, or with a globire from 100 to 300 yellow. + Article 30 If by means of threats or demonstrations threatened in the election venue or in the gyur of the tallow, it would have been reached or tried to achieve the esersice of electoral law and freedom of vote, the culprits will punish themselves with closed from one month to the year anu, or with globire from 30 to 200 yellow. If the culprits were carried weapons, or if the vote had been violated, the punishment would be closed from one year to five. The prison will be from five years until the dece, if the crime was commised in the aftermath of a plot plotted to failover or in the tota tera, or in one or more electoral circonscripts. + Article 31 Osindirile otarite in the power of the preceding Articles 28, 29 and 30, tragu after itself the prohibition of the right of voter and eligible. This prohibition will also be pronounced by that sentence, for five years at least and up to 10 years at the most. + Article 32 Or who will prove that he has bought or sold a sufra any pretu would be, will be punished with the prohibition of the right to vote and be eligible, as well as with that of the right to be able to occupy a public service or service, for 5 years the one Up to 14 years at the most. The vindator and the cumperetor of the suffrage, will osindi all-of-a-date, either that to an bent globion of the value of the priimite or promised things. + Article 33 In the absence of the initiative of the Public Ministerial, dece voters meet have the right to file a doormat or caries acusate persons of crimes mentioned in art. 28, 29, 30 And 32. + Article 34 As far as these crimes are concerned, both civil and that of the public ministry are prescribed (paragraphs) in two months after the proclamation of the resultate of election. + Article 35 The osindirea that would pronounce cannot in any casu have the effect of canceling an election of the validity that would be recognized by the General Assembly. + Article 36 No member of the Elective Assembly, as long as the session will hold, will not be able to be arrested nor drawn in criminal judgment, except in the casu of the vigil, on how much the Assembly will be authorized the persecution. TRANSITORY DISPOSITIONS For the first application of the present law, it will be possible to derogate the data fictitious in it, but observing the successive deadlines, steadfastened for publication, appeal, notifications and convocations. Facemu also known the order that the present ones, invested as the seal of the State and passed in the Official Gazette, be addressed to the Courts, Tribunals and administrative authorities to register them in their registers, observe them and make them observe, And our Minister Secretary of State at the Department of Justice is charged with watching their publication. Datu in Bucuresci, on 2/19 July 1864. ALECSANDRU IOAN. Cogalnicenu, Balanescu, D. Bolsprawenu, Generalu Manu, P. Orbescu. + THE TABLE OF DEPUTIES DUPE THE NEW ELECTORAL LAW. Counties Members Argesu, of which 2 for Pitesci and 1 for the Court of Argesu ........................................... 5 Bacau, of which 2 for the city of Bacau and 1 for Tirgulu-Ocna ..................................... 5 Bolgradu, of which 2 for the city of Bolgradu ............. 4 Botobreasts, of which 2 for the city of Botobreasts, and 1 for Tirgulu Harlau ......................... 5 Braila, of which 2 for the city of Braila ................. 4 Buzeu, of which 2 for the town of Buzeu and 1 for Mizilu ............................................ 5 Cahulu, of which 2 for the city of Cahulu ................ 4 Covurluiu, of which 2 for Galati ...................... 4 Dnmbovita, of which 2 for Tirgovisce and 1 for Gaesci ........................................ 5 Doljiu, of which 2 for Craiova and 1 for Calafatu ... 5 Dorohoiu, of which 2 for the town of Dorohiu, 1 for Mihdileni and 1 for Herta .................... 6 Falciu, of which 2 for Husii and 1 for Falciu ....... 5 ○Grjiu, of which 2 for the Jiului Fair ................ 4 Ialomita, of which 2 for Calarasu ..................... 4 Iaces, of which 4 for Iaces and 1 for Tirgul-Frumosu 7 Ilfovu, of which 6 for Bucharest and 1 for Oltenita. 9 Ismailu, of which 2 for the town of Ismail ................ 4 Mehedinti, of which 2 for Severinu, 1 for Cernetii and 1 for Baia-de-arama ..................... 6 Muscel, of which 1 for Campu-lungu .................... 4 Neamtu, of which 2 for Stone and 1 for the fair Neamtu 5 Oltu, of which 2 for Slatina .......................... 4 Prahova, of which 2 for Ploiesti, unulu for Campina and 1 for Mountain-Valenes ..................... 6 Putna, of which 2 for Focsani and 1 for Odobescii and Panciu ......................................... 5 Ramnicu-Saratu, of which 2 for the city of Ramnicu-Saratu .. 4 Romanatii, of which 2 for Caracal ..................... 4 Romanu, of which 2 for the city of Romanu ................. 4 Suceava, of which 2 for Folklore ...................... 4 Tecuciu, of which 2 for the town of Tecuciu and 1 for Nicorescs ...................................... 5 Teleorman, of which 2 for Magurele, 1 for Russians- de-sees and 1 for Alecsandria ............... 6 Tutova, of which 2 for Barladu ........................ 4 Vilcea, of which 2 for Ramnicu-Valcii, 1 for Ocna and 1 for Dragasani ....................... 6 Vasluiu, of which 2 for the city of Vasluiu ................ 4 Vlasca, of which 2 for Giurgiu ........................ 4 Totalu 160 Minister Secretary of State, President of the Council of Ministers, M. COGALNICEANU. -----------